Asteroid 2024 BJ's closest approach to Earth will be about 220,000 miles (354,000 kilometers) way. The space rock is ~68 feet ...

In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...

The sample from the asteroid Ryugu was overrun with Earth-based life forms after they were brought to the planet, scientists ...

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

An asteroid that fell to Earth and exploded above Canada in 2022 was only around 20 inches wide — the smallest space rock ...

Japanese researchers have identified sodium carbonates, or salt crystals, in samples from the Ryugu asteroid brought back to ...

If America won’t embrace their idea of utopia, radicals are not going to contribute to the ongoing survival of the species.

NASA reports that a massive 300-foot asteroid named 2006 WB is set to pass close to Earth on November 26, just in time for ...

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a large asteroid wandered dangerously close to the Red Planet.

Asteroid Ryugu was altered by water and contains organic molecules older than the Sun. The building blocks of RNA and Vitamin ...